Therefore, the motives of the person who contacted Rama were not pure.
Moreover, Rama himself is not ordinary. The Skrulls would not know it unless they checked, and they were shocked when they checked. This guy actually controls two Mexican cartels from behind!
The so-called cartel is actually an economic term at first. It is also called a monopoly interest group, a monopoly alliance, a business alliance, and an industry alliance. It is one of the forms of monopoly organizations. It produces or sells a certain product in order to monopolize the market and obtain high profits. Monopolistic organizations and relationships formed by manufacturers of similar goods reaching agreements on commodity prices, output, and market share distribution.
But this term changes its flavor when it comes to Mexico. It represents drug lords, warlords, and terrorist organizations!
When talking about drugs, we can’t help but think of Mexico, a famous drug trafficking base. Mexico has become a paradise for criminals decades ago. As the saying goes, "Too far from heaven, too close to the United States." The vast drug consumption market in the United States is the fundamental reason for the rampant drug cartels in Mexico. The Mexican government often needs to look at the faces of drug traffickers to survive. Even though these gangsters commit crimes and often leave people dead on the streets, the Mexican government has nothing to do with them.
The first Mexican drug traffickers were actually a group of middlemen who made money by helping South American drug lords transport drugs into the United States. Although drug traffickers in Mexico were also rampant at that time, to put it bluntly, they were just a group of second-tier traffickers. It is not only about the Colombian drug lords. His face is such that he must make regular contributions to the Mexican government! Belongs to the bottom role in this ecological chain.
But one thing is true: it is too far from heaven and too close to the United States.
With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico has received many low-end manufacturing jobs transferred from the United States. This has undoubtedly brought benefits to the Mexican economy, but the problem is that for another group of people, the signing of this agreement means The end is coming.
That is Mexican farmers. Compared with modern agriculture in the United States, the production process is highly mechanized, electrified, chemicalized and improved. Although Mexico is a large agricultural country, its agricultural level is not high. Both its industrial model and agricultural technology are still at a relatively traditional stage, and even basic mechanization is not possible. If nothing else, the cost advantage of U.S. agricultural products alone is enough to beat Mexico. At that time, the cost of producing a ton of soybeans or corn in Mexico was often more than three times that of the United States.
Therefore, after the establishment of the free trade zone, U.S. agricultural products began to pour into Mexico. With its output and price advantages, U.S. agricultural products easily dominate the Mexican market. As a result, Mexico's local agricultural products will naturally lose their living space. Since agricultural products cannot be sold, Mexican farmers have no source of income. Therefore, Mexico's agricultural economy soon collapsed, and farmers became unemployed and bankrupt. These families, who were not already wealthy, have become even worse. Many of them have problems with food and clothing.
The collapse of Mexico's agricultural economy has greatly facilitated the expansion of Mexico's drug industry. At that time, because farming was not profitable, farmers chose to lie flat, so a large amount of land was abandoned.
But this has become a hotbed for the growth of Mexican drug lords.
Mexican drug lords took the opportunity to exploit these lands.
After all, how can a second-rate dealer go out on his own to make money?
That period happened to be the climax of the U.S. anti-drug war in Colombia, and major drug lords in Colombia were arrested one after another. This has led to high drug prices in the United States. Moreover, with the signing of the free trade agreement, the cost and difficulty of transporting drugs from Mexico to the United States has been greatly reduced.
Although those second-rate dealers in Mexico don't understand economics, they are not stupid, so naturally they cannot let this opportunity go. They offer high prices to induce farmers to switch to growing drug crops. They not only provide seeds and technology, but also promise to recycle them at high prices in the future. Even during the planting period, farmers still receive wages. For unemployed Mexican farmers, this is undoubtedly a good deal, with guaranteed harvests during droughts and floods, and a steady profit without loss. Compared with the hard work of growing corn before, it is undoubtedly more profitable. As a result, large "plantations" appeared in the Mexican countryside, and Mexico's drug industry was unprecedentedly prosperous.
Of course, Mexican farmers may know that these drug lords are not good people. But there is no choice. In order to survive, they can only choose this way. Even between the government and drug lords, they will choose the latter and actively participate in the drug industry. In other words, they and the drug lords have become a community of interests, and both parties are tightly bound together. If one loses, both will suffer, if one gains, both will prosper. If the Mexican government wants to eradicate drug lords, it will be equivalent to touching the interests of the vast peasant class. In this way, the government needs to face not just a few drug traffickers, but the vast poor class in Mexico.
With such advantages, the power and strength of drug lords began to expand unprecedentedly. In the past, Mexican drug lords still had to look at the government's attitude and situation, but now, those drug cartels have become warlords.
They control a large area of land, so they have territory and base areas, and have the support of many farmers, which provides a source of support for the people and a source of new troops. With a market as vast as the United States providing them with funds, they are not even short of money!
There is money, people, and territory.
Why bother with the government?
Moreover, the Mexican government has accelerated this process, which is the famous Mexican anti-drug war!
This war was originally a measure taken by the then president to cover up electoral fraud and divert public attention from domestic partisan conflicts. This so-called war did have a lot to gain from the beginning.
But in a sense, these harvests are a survival of the fittest for Mexican drug lords. Those drug lords who cannot keep up with the situation and have insufficient means are eliminated. Who is left behind? Moreover, Mexico itself cannot win the war in the first place. After all, the cause of the drug epidemic cannot be solved by killing a few drug lords!
In the vast rural areas of Mexico, growing marijuana and other drug raw materials is no different to growing fruit trees and corn for farmers. It is just that the income from marijuana and drug raw materials is higher. They don't think there is any problem with this. After all, if they don't grow it, they will just do it. Gotta starve to death!
And the cause of all this is poverty.
Without solving this fundamental problem, there will be no solution to the drug problem.
What's more, the Mexican government itself is full of shit. From the president to the grassroots, there are no officials who are not corrupt. The police are even more accomplices and subordinates of drug lords. The wages of police officers in many areas cannot support their families at all, and they all rely on drug lords to pay their wages... This Under such circumstances, it would be a shame if drugs could be banned!
With this industry consolidation, Mexican drug cartels began to develop into a highly organized and armed state. They had a strict organizational structure. In order to protect their business and territory, they even directly paid government troops to work for them!
For example, the famous Los Zetas (Los Zetas) was originally formed after the rebellion of thirty-four special forces in Mexico. These special forces were specially trained by the Mexican government for the Olympic Games that year, using the best weapons at the time. equipment, and specially invited experts from the United States and other countries to train them. After the Olympics, this special force was used in the anti-drug war, but then they defected en masse with the latest equipment and became the Gulf Cartel (Mexico) at that time. mercenaries from the oldest cartel.
Then he went out on his own and founded Los Zetas. This organization is completely a paramilitary organization, and its equipment is better than that of the regular army.
And Rama controls two such organizations!
When Nick heard that the cartel controlled by Rama transported dozens of tons of illegal drugs into the United States and around the world every year, he suddenly took a breath. What’s even more amazing is that there hasn’t been a single accident on their route so far!
This is not the way of an ordinary gang of traffickers. For a cartel of this level, at least 10-20% of its goods should have accidents, be caught, or be exploited every year. This information will be integrated within the DEA and FBI to give relevant departments a general understanding of the scale and routes of illegal drug transactions. But this cartel actually managed to hide it from the public and secretly made billions of dollars in profits.
What's even more frightening is that there is no news from the DEA, FBI or CIA who likes to cooperate with drug traffickers. This is too weird.
It is especially rare that the person who controls two Mexican cartels is also a very powerful reformer.
Because SHIELD knows nothing about it!
S.H.I.E.L.D. is an agency that handles superpower incidents. On the other hand, people from S.H.I.E.L.D. are also the most likely to come into contact with people with superpowers.
Using criminals to commit crimes is an extremely old-fashioned but efficient method, but it is generally a common method used by officials. The CIA knows this well.
"Have you found the person behind this guy?" Nick Fury felt like he had caught a big fish. This Rama controls two cartels that generate billions of dollars in profits every year. He can't be anything.
Billions! This is no small number. Nick Fury has been poaching S.H.I.E.L.D. for a long time, and of course he knows how much money this money brings. After all, both the Imperial Organization and the current Skyward Sword Bureau were founded by him poaching S.H.I.E.L.D. in order to obtain the required funds. , Nick Fury himself knows how much effort he has put into it. I also know how much can be done with billions of dollars every year!
Of course, he also knew that it was impossible for the two cartels to hand over all their profits. After all, they were drug dealers, just for money. If all the money had been handed over, the people below would have rebelled long ago. They are drug dealers, not saints. But even so, the benefits transferred through Rama every year are at least more than one billion. The key is that no one knows this amount of money, let alone checks it!
"Yes, given the value of the target, we are ready to lure the snake out of the hole!" The Skrulls' old profession is to transform into the enemy's core and disintegrate the enemy's resistance from within. They are the ancestors of the espionage industry. . They can naturally understand the importance of this gangster named Rama.
Nick Fury nodded.
If there is any benefit to being forced to become a traitor, it is that he can abandon his past rules of conduct.
He no longer needs to care about rules and regulations, and whether it is legal or not.
Although he didn't care much about these things before, now that he is within the system and is still at the top of the system, no matter what, he needs to actively and passively maintain the system that this system relies on for its survival.
It's different now, he doesn't need any evidence. As long as there are clues, he will come to the door and use various means to get the information he wants.
By the way, there is no taboo in using that information to gain some benefits for yourself. Although he would do this in the past, after all, he was in the system, and even if he did it, he could only do it secretly and on a small scale.
For example, Rama's operation this time gave him inspiration.
There are many warlord-like drug lord groups in South America and Mexico. He only needs to secretly control a few, and then the money will continue to come?
Nick Fury's biggest problem now is funding.
After being deemed a traitor by S.H.I.E.L.D., all Nick Fury's money-making methods were uprooted, causing his funds to begin to be stretched thin. He can rely on force to control these Skrulls, but he cannot rely on force to make these Skrulls go without food! It’s true that the Skrulls are aliens, but they are still carbon-based creatures and they also need to eat! Even if they are not given food, they will rebel.
Moreover, the Imperial Organization is also a big consumer of funds.
Thinking about it this way, this is a really good thing!
Not only the financial problem is solved, but it is also possible to catch the tail of Hydra!
Kill two birds with one stone!
…
In fact, the way the Skrulls fish is very simple, that is Rama himself.
When they captured Rama, they found artificial equipment from his eyes, and a monitoring program was found inside. Fortunately, the Skrulls were rigorous in their work and used electromagnetic interference during the arrest. This was originally used to prevent Rama's men from being alerted and to prevent Rama from asking for help. The result was a hit and miss, and they were not exposed.
However, despite this, at the moment of electromagnetic interference, the other party will know that something is wrong with Rama. Regardless of whether Rama caused this problem actively or passively, the people behind the scenes will not wait for others to investigate without action.
In fact, it was pretty much what they guessed.
In a secret research room in the special zone.
A man who was both unexpected and reasonable appeared.
Garrett.
Alexander's right-hand man.
"How's Lamar doing?" Garrett asked.
The researcher in front of the computer quickly replied while operating the computer: "At eight twenty-seven, the signal encountered an electronic barrier and never recovered. Then we checked the surveillance around him and found that Rama was at eight o'clock. Forty-five left the bar alone.”
